From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3a0a0900c3aba8ba1d3ad35f077a54a7@yourdomain.dom> To: 9fans@9fans.net From: "Federico G. Benavento" Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 23:12:13 -0200 In-Reply-To: <7359f0490805011852k64a52a01k1efc1e6aba8b030c@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] A new language for Plan 9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9c4fcebe-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Put it this way: It's unwise to make program structure depend on > invisible characters. a white space is something hard to find, some time ago I helped a friend who couldn't get a mkfile working, he got something like: "mk: mkfile:6: syntax error; expected one of :<=" all due to a ' ' in what was supposed to be an empty line. Federico G. Benavento --- /bin/fortune: You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.